Synchronicity with the Schumann frequency

M. Schotten

Hi Foster,

This is not a question, just a brief sharing of a (kind of) synchronicity related to last week’s Fireside Chat and the Schumann Resonance.

When you were explaining the various brainwave frequency ranges and mentioned 7.8 Hz within Alpha, it reminded me of the Schumann resonance, and you’ll probably recall that I put it in the Zoom chat (as you then referred to it). I then looked it up on Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schumann_resonances (as I wasn’t sure that I remembered the value of 7.8 correctly) and saw there that the exact value is indeed 7.83 Hz (or was, as I also seem to remember some reports that it may have shifted upward in recent years?), so also put that more precise number in the chat.

Anyway, a few days later when I woke up, for some reason this was pretty much the first thought that popped into my head and then realized that I’ve always had “a thing” with the numbers 7 and 8, as my birthday falls on July 8. Then I suddenly realized that my birth year also adds up to 3! So, ⅞/3, which I find quite significant.

For context, I should add that I’ve often experienced synchronicities with numbers and digits, especially some very strong ones in recent years. Also read parts of Dan Millman’s “The Life You Were Born to Live” and find his number system as it relates to personalities also intriguing. And the other thing that’s relevant is that about 20 years ago, when I was living in Hawaii, when I was driving in Kaneohe I saw a number plate with the word “Schumann” on it (at least, in my memory of it). This prompted me to consider the Schumann Resonance at the time, although I never took the effort to study it more thoroughly. (Another relevant thing that I just realized is that my research advisor in Hawaii actually did his PhD work in electrical engineering on the ionosphere!)

Anyway, I find this quite intriguing and the Schumann Resonance is now on my radar again to look into more deeply.

And especially interesting since we discussed the topic of synchronicities themselves in the Fireside Chat and breakout session, Leandrew mentioned his own synchronicity with that Carl Jung book, and Carl Jung’s last book “The Undiscovered Self” was mentioned by Cory Endrulat in his interview with Mike Adams – and I also mentioned that book in the message I sent you two days before the Fireside (in the “Foster’s Book” section of this Forum), to notify you about that interview; I assumed that’s how you found out about it? Or if you independently found it yourself and then shared that exact section, that makes the synchronicity even more intriguing!

Anyway, just thought to share this with you, for what it’s worth and considering the topic of our last Fireside. I also look forward to reading that book by Arthur Young “The Reflexive Universe” that you recommended. Thanks!

M. Schotten

Hi again, here some follow-up thoughts that I think adds to the synchronicity, something that occurred to me only after I posted the above. It was triggered by a new book that I just started reading that same day, by Mark Wolynn, called “It Didn’t Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle”. He opens the book with a famous quote by Carl Jung: “Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakes.”

This quote of course reminded me of my message to you, and then I suddenly realized that two books mentioned in it, by Carl Jung (“The Undiscovered Self”) and Arthur Young (“The Reflexive Universe”) are both by authors with essentially the same name: the German “jung” means “young” in English!

As both of them write about the “inner” universe of our (collective) psyches in those books, covering the second part of Jung’s quote, I thought it would be interesting to look for two counterpart authors, also named Carl and Arthur, who focus on the “outer” universe (as in the first part of Jung’s quote above). Immediately the name of Carl Sagan popped up, whom you recently posted a meme about on this website, a famous astronomer/author and researcher of “outer” space. What’s interesting is that Sagan contains the word “sage”, a wise old man – so also a counterpart of “young” in that sense.

So, is there another author of outer space whose name starts with Arthur? I thought of Arthur C. Clarke, the author of “2001: A Space Odyssey”. His name doesn’t immediately seem to relate to the word “old”, although its etymology stems from the Latin “clericus”, or priest, later also used to indicate literacy or scholarship – so in that sense also more related to older age.

And when I checked whether there is any connection between Carl Sagan and Arthur C. Clarke, I found this 1988 documentary called “God, The Universe and Everything Else”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKQQAv5svkk (a discussion amongst them, and also featuring Stephen Hawking), as well as this 1981 essay by Carl Sagan about Arthur C. Clarke: https://www.loc.gov/resource/mss85590.059/?sp=1 . I just found these resources tonight and still want to check them out.

Finally, I realized that the ionosphere mentioned in my previous message can, as the outermost part of our atmosphere, also be considered as the boundary between the Earth (as a representative of our inner world) and outer space.

M. Schotten

This synchronicity just keeps expanding, so adding another piece on this “May the Force”. Looks like this post is expanding into a synchronicity logbook of sorts… :-)

Last night when writing the post above, I found the short 3-page essay by Carl Sagan from 1981 (with the Tipp-Ex still visible in the typewritten document of the PDF scan!), as I was looking for possible connections between Carl Sagan and Arthur C. Clarke: https://www.loc.gov/resource/mss85590.059/?sp=1&st=pdf&r=-0.211,-0.105,1.421,1.421,0 . And it turns out that Arthur C. Clarke was actually the one who put Carl Sagan on the path of becoming a famous astronomer and author! He was inspired to choose this path after reading Arthur’s book “Interplanetary Flight” as a teenager.

What was very interesting to me is that while I was printing out the document, my printer just ran out of ink that very moment. As it was printing from back to front, page 3 was still visible with alternating lines that were more and less clearly printed, while the print on page 1 had already become very faint, almost white (but still somewhat legible with some effort). This in itself I found quite symbolic of the Jung quote “Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakes”, i.e. that you only really see when turning your gaze inward, and projected onto the outside world (such as on printed paper), it faints and becomes much less clear. And also a connection there to the clip of the kids seeing with blindfolds that you showed in the last Fireside Chat…

Anyway, what really stood out to me above all was the very last line of his essay, which was also the first thing I read when it came out of the printer: “(…) dream – shared by so many of us – a reality.” (Or: our reality is nothing but a shared dream!)

In other words, a clear reference to that Jung quote!

The word “dream” also popped up twice on page 4, which contained what seems like the start of a fictional story or novel: “The dream of flight was one of the noblest, and one of the most disinterested, of all man’s aspirations.” (Also a connection to Arthur Young’s invention of the helicopter here?). And: “(…) the Elysian dream of the Lotos Eaters (…)”. I think this is the start of an early draft of the 1985 novel “The Promise of Space” by Arthur C. Clarke, as that came up as the only search result (with a slightly different 2^nd sentence though) when I searched on the first sentence online. So the Carl Sagan essay is then probably the later Foreword to this book?

And, when searching for what the Lotos Eaters are, I found a Wikipedia entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lotos-Eaters , that this was first mentioned in Homer’s “The Oddyssey” (so there’s a connection to Arthur C. Clarke’s “2001: A Space Oddyssey”). And it mentions “(…) a group of mariners who, upon eating the lotos, are put into an altered state and isolated from the outside world.” – again, a clear connection to the Jung quote! Another interesting connection is that the homeland that Odysseus is returning to as its rightful king, in his “Hero’s Journey”, is Ithaca – and this is mentioned on page 3 of the essay, as Carl Sagan was Professor at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York.

A final thought I had was about the very interesting connection between the Schumann Resonance and the alpha brain state of 7.83 Hz that you mentioned in the Thrive movie (I or II?). So, if the ionosphere is the boundary between the inner world of Earth and outer space, then the alpha frequency in our brain serves as the boundary between our inner world (all EEG frequencies lower than 7.8 Hz, such as theta and delta ) and our outer physical world (where we mainly operate with beta brainwaves >7.8 Hz). So again, all kinds of connections to that Jung quote…

Hope you don’t mind me sharing these “mini-essays” here, but I always find these types of synchronicities intriguing, and often they just seem to keep expanding. And since we were sharing about our synchronicities in the last Fireside Chat, I thought it would be worthwhile to document them here.